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Elizabeth Dohrman Thaw a Presentation by John Canning & David Grinnell of the Allegheny City Society Sewickley Valley Historical Society XXXVIII, Number 4 Signals March 2011 Wednesday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m. Sewickley Heights History Center, 1901 Glen Mitchell Road Elizabeth Dohrman Thaw A presentation by John Canning & David Grinnell of the Allegheny City Society ne of Sewickley Heights’ great estates was As You Like It, seen Oin the aerial photo at left. It was built as a summer home by Elizabeth Dohrman Thaw, widow of William Thaw, Jr., a Pittsburgh coal merchant who was a half-brother of Harry Thaw, notorious for his 1906 shooting of architect Stanford White on the roof of the old Madison Square Garden. (See page 2 of this newsletter.) The 44-room Tudor Revival mansion, designed by architect George S. Orth and completed in 1902, was truly a summer home: it had no central heating. The estate was landscaped by John C. Olmsted, stepson of Frederick Law Olmsted, the creator of Central Park. In 1939 the house was demolished at the order of Mrs. Thaw, and the site became a subdivision, “Thawmont.” The life and career of Elizabeth Dohrman Thaw, who, after her husband’s sudden death became a pioneer of civic reform in Pittsburgh, will be the primary focus of this presentation. We will also have on display several items of Thaw memorabilia from the collection of Ted Stevenson, a Thaw descendant. John Canning was a history teacher in the Mt. Lebanon schools David Grinnell is chief archivist at the Heinz History Center. He from 1963 to 2001. A lifelong resident of the North Side and Vice is also on the Board of the Allegheny City Society and is a member President of the Allegheny City Society, over the past decade of the Western Pennsylvania Archives and History Commission he has helped organize programs that help to tell the history of of the United Methodist Church. A graduate of Albion College, what was, until 1907, Allegheny City. John is also involved with he is at present a doctoral student at Pitt’s School of Library and the OASIS program for active seniors, which meets at Macy’s Information Science. David’s interests include local history, in Pittsburgh, where he has presented lectures related to Western Methodist history, genealogy and, particularly, Charles Avery and Pennsylvania history and organized day trips to sites of historic the abolitionist movement in Western Pennsylvania. interest. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PROGRAM WILL BE HELD AT SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS HISTORY CENTER. The mission of the Sewickley Valley Historical Society is to promote interest in and to record, collect, preserve, and document the history of the Sewickley Valley. Signals March 2011 Who Was Harry Thaw? lthough Harry Kendall Thaw is often associated with Sewickley Heights, it is unlikely that he Aever did more than visit here. He was the son of William Thaw, Sr. (1818-1889), and his second wife, Mary S. Copley Thaw (1842-1929). Harry’s half-brother was William Thaw, Jr. (1853-1892), son of William Thaw, Sr., and his first wife, Eliza Burd Blair Thaw (died 1863). William, Jr., was married to Elizabeth Dorhman (1854-1948), whose summer house on Blackburn Road was As You Like It. Thus, Harry was Elizabeth Dohrman Thaw’s (half) brother-in-law. In his memoir, The Traitor, Being the Untampered With, Unrevised Account of the Trial and All That Led to It (Philadelphia, Dorrance and Company Publishers, 1926), Thaw states on pages 18-19, “… we did start the Allegheny Country Club, with the golf links in the Homewood Driving Park, Blair Painter, Remsen Messler, Win Sewell, Willie Murray, Hen Chalfant, John Morehead [sic], Frank Carnegie and I.” This statement seems, however, to be inaccurate. Thaw appears to be remembering golf with his friends at the old Pittsburgh Golf Club. In the words of John Moorhead, Jr., describing that club, “…on the center of the old Homestead race course, I got six old pea cans [and] laid these out as well as possible…I subsequently laid out the old course of the Allegheny Country Club on California Avenue, in Allegheny, and had there really the pioneer golf course [in Western Pennsylvania].” The Harry Kendall Thaw (1871-1947) Allegheny Country Club was founded in 1895, a year when Harry Thaw was abroad. Richard E. Spatz’s The History of Allegheny Country Club: The First One Hundred Years (Allegheny Country Club, 1995) contains no roster of the 1895 founding members, but there are records from 1899 that do not list Harry Thaw as a member; only Mrs. William Thaw, Jr., is listed as an Associate Member. The roster from 1902, when the Club moved to Sewickley Heights, lists the following Thaws: Josiah C. (Harry’s brother), William (probably William, III, Harry’s nephew) and Benjamin (Harry’s half- brother) as active members and Mrs. William Thaw, Jr., as an Associate Member. Harry Thaw is buried in Allegheny Cemetery. New Members Frances Love Merryman, Sewickley Friends, Sponsors, Patrons, Benefactors Thanks to the following, who have generously supported the Sewickley Valley Historical Society with gifts in addition to membership dues: George J. Berry, III; David J. Sautter The Nominating Committee The following members have been named to the Sewickley Valley Historical Society Nominating Committee and will report to the membership at the program meeting on March 16, 2011. Nancy Baldwin, Chair Brewster Cockrell, Barb Frey, Maleet Gordon, William Kleeman If you have suggestions for officers or directors of SVHS, please contact one of these individuals. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting, Wednesday, May 18, 2011. Moon Genealogy Club A Recent Gift Whether you’re just curious or have been doing genealogical The three-volume Genealogical and Personal History of Western research for a long time, you’re invited to talk with other amateur Pennsylvania (John W. Jordan, Editor-in-Chief, New York, Lewis genealogists at the Moon Genealogy Club’s monthly meetings Historical Publishing Company, 1915) was presented to the at the Moon Library. The meetings are on Thursdays at 6:30 Sewickley Valley Historical Society by Ava Maria Chamberlain p.m. Upcoming dates include March 10th, April 14th, May Shaughnessy in memory of her parents, Ralph and Mary Pass 12th and June 9th. For more information, contact the Club at Chamberlain. These handsomely illustrated volumes will be of [email protected]. great assistance to us in our genealogical research. — 2 — March 2011 Signals The following is excerpted from a paper delivered by Mrs Robert Wardrop (Agnes Dawson Miller, 1853-1941) at the Edgeworth Club, April 11, 1932, on the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Woman’s Club of Sewickley Valley. Sewickley in 1897 y subject this afternoon is early Sewickley—hoping in to give the class some idea of grammar and pronunciation, but Ma very informal way, to tell something of its habits, aims, the real result was the reading of a large number of French books, occupations, amusements, etc., and to give my own idea of how more or less intimacy with a French grammar and a fondness for a unconsciously for many years it was preparing its feminine French Bible with which to compare our King James version. population for the organization of a Woman’s Club which has Another delightful class met in the old Academy Building, which always been interested in literature and music stood on this property [the Edgeworth Club] especially, and in the higher life generally. where the tennis courts are now. One of the Mr. John I. Nevin and Dr. Bittinger of the Professors there taught Shakespeare in one Presbyterian Church organized a history class of the class rooms. Hamlet made the deepest here in 1865, which developed into what is impression on my mind, but the class itself now known as Query Club—dear to many remains a delightful memory. of us—and which is still actively engaged in During all of this time there was always great the study of literature and history. interest in music: the Choral Club for years Another smaller group was led by that dear gave most attractive concerts, and many fine friend of happy memories, Dr. Van Cleve, voices were cultivated in Sewickley. where we studied English History most Another organization that played an important informally and energetically. One of the part in Sewickley life was Miss Chaplin’s most amusing recollections of those days was Dancing Class. No child’s education was the habit our wise teacher had, when interest considered finished until he or she had taken was flagging a little, to ask some question part in the Annual Cotillion and had been kept concerning Cromwell. That was enough: off up to the highest standard of good manners we went. Liberals and Conservatives were in the dancing class, and some who were not just as different then as they are now. children enjoyed many evenings under the The Dramatic Club was organized in 1886, Mrs. Robert Wardrop capable leadership of this graceful teacher. which entertained its members with several Then came the “Wheel”, a class led by plays each year: how we looked forward to these events! “Courtesy Mrs. Charles Bassett, a stranger in our midst, full of energy and Cards” were issued and guests from the city were invited to dinner organizing ability. We read and studied many subjects, and listened and the play, and what cared we for muddy roads as we drove to with the deepest interest to the leader’s expositions concerning Choral Hall to see our friends perform, and to watch the young them. This class was the real cornerstone of the Woman’s Club, people dance afterwards, or, if one was so inclined, take part in and its members were charter members of the new organization.
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